comparing strings: case INsensitive

[bchan90]

I'm trying to write a program that takes in a list of names and ages, then searches for a certain first name and last name. However, in the problem prompt, it requires that the comparison between the name and search value to be case insensitive. I've tried stricmp() but I don't think the compiler I'm using uses it (GCC). Here's my code for my search() function so far.

int search( char names[20][20], int ages[20], char value[20], int *totAges )
{
  char tempArr[20];
  int rCtr = 0;
  int cCtr = 0;
  int ctr = 0;
  int ageCtr = 0;

  for( rCtr = 0; rCtr < 20; rCtr++ ) {
    strcpy( tempArr, names[rCtr] );
    if( !strcmp( tempArr, value ) ) {
      ctr++;
      printf( "%d\n", ages[rCtr] );
      ageCtr += ages[rCtr];
    }
  }
  *totAges = ageCtr;

  return ctr;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[MattW]

strcasecmp()

[bchan90]

Thanks! Works perfectly now.

[MattW]

No problem. Just be aware that strcasecmp() is not portable. So outside of GCC your code may not even work. But its all good, you didn't seem like that was an issue.

[Codeplug]

It's Posix portable at least: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...trcasecmp.html

gg

[matsp]

And many other compilers have "stricmp" that does the same thing.

And it's not terribly hard to do the same thing if you need to.

--
Mats

[hauzer]

How comes there is stricmp() in MinGW?

[Codeplug]

MinGW uses the Microsoft CRT (that comes with VC 6.0, msvcrt.dll), and exposes all of its functionality.

gg